Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-01
stories Of Mr.. Lamar.

II is the habit of Mr.. Lamar to tell
the waiter 10 bring him u good dinner
and he thus leaves the selection with
| the waiter, and the result is that he is
| often disappointed in the outcome. He is
II very pleasant fellow at the dinner table,
and he likes TO sit at the table for
several hours. He is a good story teller
and he has had such n wide acquaintance
with public men and such a remarkable
career that he can tell more stories in
which he has had II personal interest than
| most official. He is nearer able to
! iill in every II mute with an anecdote than
my other ma in Washington, and he is q
! :reat Guoter al poetry. lie has lots OF
| little gems " hich he has picked up from
the country newspapers, and he has u
great admiration for the newspaper and
the newspaper writer. His greatest re-
gret In the interior department has been
that 1t has kept him from his usual extern
sire reading Of newspapers, and he de
YOURS when ne can the cross roads papers
of his own stale
Secretary Lamar is. however, a fine
magazinist. and If he had "A steGographer
constantly with him he would probably
he voluminous author. He is very apt
IN his expression, and he is one of the
most highly educated men in Washing
ton. james u. Blaine says that his mind
has "a certain orientalism in il mixed
with typical AmeriCani>m.' and his work
in the department shows that Blaine was
not amiss when he added: Lamar is n
full reflection; full Of imagination, seem
ngly careless. yet closely observant: ap-
parently dreamy, Yet altogether practi-
cal"
Lamar Is a great reader He reads
everything and keeps up with the current
magazines. He likes French novels anu
reads the French readily. He comes from
n most cultured family, and If he had as
much money making rs he has literary
ability he would be II rich man. As it is
he is worth somewhere between SIS, 900
and xoO.0iD though he would he worth
ESQ, 600 il his Jersey cattle would bring
the values he puts upon them; and,
strange to say, all The money iIe has ma,ie
has come from this herd Of Jersey cattle
He has big farm III Mississippi and he
has one of the finest herds of JERSEYS of
the state. Senator McPherson's Jersey
bull, Senator Vest. which lately took a
premium NJ the Jersey fair in New Jer-
sey. was bred by Secretary Lamar, and
Lamar has another animal, Gilt Edged
ii, for which he was offered $1,000.
The assistant secretary of the interior,
Col II. ]. Muldrow, has one of the larg-
est Jersey herds in the south, and he
keeps them on his farm at Camp Oaks,
Miss, and has catalogue Of sixty pages
containing a list of them Lamar knows
all about farming and stock breeding. aud
it will be surprise TO many to know that
he is the inventor Of an iron harrow which
is used TO some extent in Mississippi. He
was one Of the first farmers, so far a
known TO advocate the use of ensilage IN
the south, and he has all the pride of the
southern lawyer in his farm and stock
Nearly every prominent member OF the bar
and Judiciary of Mississippi smuses him
self in farming and stock breeding, and
these Mississippi statesmen like to talk of
their farms as much as the Kentuckians
do OF their horses. Washington Letter.
ChamPiin's L.ausu rearA, 50 Conts.